palisade
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In the city of New Amsterdam, they grew crops and constructed important sites, including the palisade in 1653 that gave today’s Wall Street its name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
At Amnya, her team also noted a possible sign of social stratification, another development often linked to agriculture: a cluster of houses that sat, undefended, outside the palisade.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
Below the palisade parenchyma are loosely arranged cells of an irregular shape.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
No one wants to tell President Wingfield that he was wrong and Captain Smith was right about building a palisade, I think.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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They documented the defensive architecture, a network of deep ditches, banks, and palisades surrounding a cluster of houses.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
The noodle house may be hard to find because it’s literally overshadowed by the palisades of the Great Wall Shopping Mall nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Other than the shell of a reconstructed barracks and the palisades outlining the fort, there were no other attempts at verisimilitude.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
They made houses from bent saplings covered with bark, mats, or hides, and sometimes surrounded their villages with log palisades.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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He is the carpenter overseeing the building of the palisades.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Last March, Historic St. Mary’s City announced that the outlines of the palisaded fort, erected by White settlers in 1634, had finally been discovered.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2022
Above the palisaded gate the torso of a square-headed Tartar was visible, with his elbows resting on the ramparts, holding his long musket in his hand.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
She was the first to set foot upon the narrow strip surrounding the moat and beyond which rose the palisaded entrenchment.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
On a bright spring morning, May 17th, Joliet and Marquette, with five other men, left behind them the palisaded post and chapel of St. Ignace.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
Ojeda collected a few of his followers, and made a desperate resistance from the interior of a palisaded enclosure.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
The party made their way in the first place along the outer side of the palisading until they reached the main entrance gate to the village; and from this point Mildmay “took his departure.”
From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Gordon Browne
Often these heavy timbers were set close enough to touch each other, when they are called "palisading."
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
Round the outer palisading Of the diamond walls are watching Many hosts from the Sabaoth Of the King of all these bright realms.
From A Leaf from the Old Forest by John D. Cossar
Haliburton116 mentions the difficulty that the governor had to employ the settlers by sending them out on various expeditions, in palisading the town, and in other public works.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
But whatever it meant, it stopped the elephant from crashing through a piece of palisading, and made it kneel again with its head over a flowerbed, and begin picking all the blossoms within its reach.
From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Charles Pears
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